Name this fondue-bread-bowl recipe
September 10, 2018 12:33 PM Subscribe
I found this recipe a few years ago in the web and now I can't locate it. It is essentially fondue/cheese dip inside a bread bowl.
The name is either Swiss or Swedish in origin, made with dark bread and has a lot of sour cream in it. I add bacon to mine, and I assume the original has some kind of meat in it if not bacon. You cut out the inside bread and slice it up for dipping. The name is very Germanic with a suffix like -chen and a fire related word in it, but it is not flammkuchen. I can find lots of copycat recipes, but none with the actual name.
The name is either Swiss or Swedish in origin, made with dark bread and has a lot of sour cream in it. I add bacon to mine, and I assume the original has some kind of meat in it if not bacon. You cut out the inside bread and slice it up for dipping. The name is very Germanic with a suffix like -chen and a fire related word in it, but it is not flammkuchen. I can find lots of copycat recipes, but none with the actual name.
Response by poster: Sorry, this is a warm dish - here is the basic process
Buy a round loaf of bread and cut out the middle so you have a bowl
Slice the middle into planks and butter them
Cook and crumble bacon
Layer shredded cheese, sour cream and bacon in the bread bowl, finishing with a layer of cheese
Bake the bowl and the planks
Pull the planks out after about 10 minutes so they don't burn.
The bread bowl is done when the top is brown and the middle of the dip is warm
posted by soelo at 9:49 AM on September 11, 2018
Buy a round loaf of bread and cut out the middle so you have a bowl
Slice the middle into planks and butter them
Cook and crumble bacon
Layer shredded cheese, sour cream and bacon in the bread bowl, finishing with a layer of cheese
Bake the bowl and the planks
Pull the planks out after about 10 minutes so they don't burn.
The bread bowl is done when the top is brown and the middle of the dip is warm
posted by soelo at 9:49 AM on September 11, 2018
Unfortunately it's not the answer but that's definitely called a cob dip or cob loaf here, and is an entertaining classic for some.
I tried to find a link to a German or Swedish dish, and while apparently cob might have Germanic roots as a word, I couldn't find anything more. Still, maybe it helps a bit.
posted by AnhydrousLove at 10:12 AM on September 11, 2018
I tried to find a link to a German or Swedish dish, and while apparently cob might have Germanic roots as a word, I couldn't find anything more. Still, maybe it helps a bit.
posted by AnhydrousLove at 10:12 AM on September 11, 2018
The German term "Käse im Brotlaib" leads to lots of recipes similar to what you describe, but I don't think there's a specific term for it. You could use the term "Brotlaibchen" for a small loaf of bread, but I've never heard that term. Caveat: I don't speak Swiss German.
posted by amf at 11:46 AM on September 11, 2018
posted by amf at 11:46 AM on September 11, 2018
Yeah, tons of recipes around for Käse im Brottopf, a few for Käse im Brottöpfchen.
Generally speaking -chen is a diminuitive, so a small Topf is a Töpfchen. The German for cob loaf is Brotlaib, in a lot of those recipes the word Brotlaib is replaced with Brottopf but that really is just recipe or menu speak. I am Austrian not Swiss, but cheese is chäs and loaf weggen.
posted by 15L06 at 2:09 PM on September 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
Generally speaking -chen is a diminuitive, so a small Topf is a Töpfchen. The German for cob loaf is Brotlaib, in a lot of those recipes the word Brotlaib is replaced with Brottopf but that really is just recipe or menu speak. I am Austrian not Swiss, but cheese is chäs and loaf weggen.
posted by 15L06 at 2:09 PM on September 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: I found it buried in my bookmarks: Flammkuchen Bread Bowl!
LOL at myself "but it is not flammkuchen" and that this question will close in 4 days.
posted by soelo at 6:04 AM on September 7, 2019
LOL at myself "but it is not flammkuchen" and that this question will close in 4 days.
posted by soelo at 6:04 AM on September 7, 2019
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posted by 15L06 at 6:09 PM on September 10, 2018